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Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-10-27

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Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-10-27

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beams
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-10-27

were three vacancies in the board of
directors, two for one year and one for two
years Rev. C. s. Sheffield and c. W
BrowH were appointed for the hrst and
Rev. n ". Barker for the last.
BY Late wreck on the Santa Fe road
west of EmpOria, the engine, mail and bag
gage cars were thrown from the track and
Andrew HaEtwick, fireman. was badly in
iured By jumping from the engine. The
accident was caused by passenger train
running into the rear end of construction
train that was ,ssRdcavorSng TO get on tue
switch.
The State Treasurer recently received
Erom the Assistant United States Treasut-
eSr at ST. Louis the SIG, 600 for Governments
bonds sold by the State TO the United States
Ereasurer. This amount gees to the per
manent school fund; the commissioners
have already purchased $4,000 of school
bonds, and Superintendent Iawhead has
arranged for the purchase of as many more
Topeka has a haunted house
A letter was recently received by the
Secretary of State from J. b. Wilder of
Mississippi, requesting sixty or one hundred
caiiroad passes for colored families who de-
sire to come 10 Kansas In urging the
snodest request the writer says: If the
Governor oill grant that many passes I
will take il Oh myself to see that these peo-
Kansas safe so that they can help to make
Kansas good State; for / am citizen of
Kansas and do want TO see that State
become rs popu7sr as the Eastern States
are now. will do all can to help build
it up, for l am not q citizen Of the South
any more"
The amount paid for losses the past year
by the Odd Fellows Funeral Aid was Sl26,.
900.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1887-12-22
Explosion of a Bird.

Newton Tabor was digging well at
Pilot Point, Tex. To blast out the
rock he used dynamite enclosed in
small metallic capsules. In the course
of his operations he deposited an open
box CT these dangerous capsules at the
foot of tree near where he was work
ing. A ladder leaning against the tree
reached up to mockingbird's nest con
tanning young brood. His ten-year-
old son, Dick, with couple of the cap
sules in his hand, ascended the ladder,
and, discovering the young birds with
dlstended mouths, boy-like dropped the
capsules, one at a time, in one bird s
mouth. They forthwith disappeared i'll
the birds craw. This rendered the
bird uncomfortable, and in struggle
for relief it fell from the nest. Upon
striking the ground an explosion Oc-
occurred which tore up the earth. dump
ed a quantity of the loose dirt and the
fragments of rock piled around into the
well, and came near killing Mr.. Tabor,
who was working down below. The
boy fell from the ladder and was badly
hurt, suffering the fracture of some
bones. This shows what boy will do
when he gets chance.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1887-12-22
One Cent.

1t is almost impossible to attach any
Importance to one cent. but at the same
time it Is a very important coin at
times, says an exchange. 1t will take
circular toCalifornia and 1t will make
YOU madden than halter and a March
hare combined when you go to pay
your fare on a horse-car and find that
you have but four cents and ten dol.
lar bill. One cent is very small, but
when it is added to the rate of interest
you receive on stock. it possesses q
stern, magnificent grandeur that car
ries you away like a strain OF music.
The penny, it seems, was made to put
on church plates and, although man
may say it amounts to nothing, he
strike matches and lift mats and crawl
about in the straw of horse-car to find
the one he drops. 1t is so small coin
that you have to take off your glove to
take hold of it in your pocket, and yet
it is so large that when the baby swal-
lows it, the chances of the baby's living
are sometimes not worth cent. Al
though one cent is less than ten cents,
yet one cent is great deal larger than
dime. Many man has gone thirsty
all dav with four cents In his pocket.
For the want of that one cent the four
we're as useless as the eleven men on a
jury who are held ont against by one.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1887-12-22
RICH AND MISERABLE.
Death Of an Eccentric and Mysterious
New Jersey Hermit.

The death recently Of Thomas Foster
Of Shamong township. Burlington
County. n. j.. furnishes the people of
Mount Holly and Eeighboring villages
something further 10 wonder at and
discuss, says the New York World.
Foster was seventy wears old, aud WAS
known To his neighbors as The Her
nit of the Pines" For fifty years he
had lived alone in the primitive little
log house in which he died, and for a
great part of the time was known to be
miser. Hence little surprise was
manifested 10y those who found in an
old chest in his cabin bills and gold and
silver coins to "A large amount.
When Foster, then "A prepossessing
youth of twenty, appeared in Shamong
township half a century ago and took
up his abode in the little cabin with his
dogs and books, the people wondered.
He possessed an excellent scholastic
education and polished manners, and
soon had many friends among his rural
neighbors. Why he had fled from cities
and bu led himself in that out-of-the-
way place he never told, but little 10y
little a story was woven for him, in
time-worn motive of disappointed love
was made fit to his case. and he ceased
to he an object of interest. Then it
came to he noiSed about that Foster
was mIser. The country people fell
away from him and he secluded himself
more and more until he was almost for
gotten. Surrounded 10y his dogs, his
mind buried in his books, with which
the cabin was plentifully supplied, day S
would sometimes pass without his STIR
ring abroad.
The bowling of a dog attracted some
farmers to the little log hut, and there
they found the hermit dangerously III.
Accordingly the Overseer of the poor of
Medford visited the cabin for the pur-
pose of removing the old man to the
almShouse
Take me to the almshouse p he al
most shouted. Never! | have money
10 pay for taking care of me here, and
here aIe the keys 10 that chest. Open
it and you will find what say is true
When the chest was opened, sure
enough, there was the money as he had
said. The gold was neatly packed d.
way in little bags. The notes were
crisp and clean, though.of the issue of
old State concerns long since become
national banks. Foster obStImately re-
fused to have a nurse, saying: The
nurse would eat so much" Just before
the end came he raised himself on his
elbow, mOtIoned cOnvulsively toward
the old chest and fell back dead. The
cabin ana the miser's effects were taken
in charge by the authorities. 1t is
thought that there may be more money
secreted about the old structure
An effort will be made to find his rel
atives in. Philadelphia, from which city
it is said he came to the pines.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1887-12-22
DGfz3I3p1f43 3

! \ long pail, full of some mysterious com
pound. had been sitting in a tub in the
woodshed carclesSly covered over with Il
piece of carpet, and this was found 10 con-
tain ice-cream. aud after all the other things
had been distributed. II came in, piled up
i'm delicious masses of frozen sweetness, on
Mrs. ReNford's best china sluccrs, together
with the angels food which Aunt Nan had
baked that day.
Mrs. ReNiord actually cried with sur
pris,d delight when Ted gave her a lovely
plush wortS-hox, tine ffrSr rffr re nad ever
been able To make her, and told his story of
the kind gentleman and his gold watch.
Poor thing! She had enjoyed little of iner-
rimcut or gift-making since her marriage,
and she enjoyed this, as only kindly,
cheerful heart, crampcd into space far too
small for it, can enjoy liberty and love free
~ expressed.
Mother" said Ted, when at a late hour,
Mrs. Rexford gathered her little flock tc-
gctheI for their cv euing prayers, 'it al
ways seemed when | said 'Our Heavenly
like father, but think He must bc good or
He wouldn't a let MS had such lovely
Christmas. "
Teddy, poor child" said Aunt Nan, and
her kindly bright eyes We're full of tears,
"whatevcr comes dear boy, don't forget
that whatever your earthly father may be
your Heavenly Father is all tenderness and
love toward you."
Before Mr.. Rexforl's return, all traces of
the festivities were removed /; nc seemed
qnitc softencd by the scenes through which
he had passed, and if he noticed any super
fluous articles about the house and sns-
pectcd their scource, he said nothing, and
the children never forgot their one Merry
Christmas" Mrs. +. VI. HOWARD.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1887-12-22
NfILE-STONES.
Events That Mark the Beginning OF
Spochs In the Worlds History Christ
n,..s-Its Origin and Associations.

Old Father Time has got his nile
stones. The FIRST one OF which we
have any account is the seventh day
the Sabbath and that came down
to us from Mount Sinai. The Jews
hnu another ope-tte seventh wear, ~
wear Of feast for the land, in which
they were forbidden to plow or TO hoe,
To reap or TO sow. And there was an
other, called the year of jubilee-the
fifteenth year in which the slaves were
set free and the lands were restored
to those who had sold them. We hear
now Of leases for ninetynine years, but
with the Jews all sales or leases eX-
pired the forty nineth, or year ofjubilce
There was great rejoicing when the
time came for the children or the grand
children to get back the old homestead
Of their ancestors.
But the most popular and import
ant of all mile stones is the anniver-
sarv of the birth of Christ. 1t is very
common every where to celebrate birth
davs. Americans make n big fuss over
Washington's birthday because he is
called the Father of His Country. Most
every family makes little fuss over
the birthdayofth parents or children.
They don't toot horns or pop firecrack-
ers, but they have an extra good din
ner and fix up some little present as
a pleasant surprise The 4th of July
was the birth of q nation and so the ma
ton always celebarted that day. But
Christmas belongs to all civilized coun-
tries. 1t is ablessed heritage and belongs
to all alike-the rich and the poor, the
bon and the free, the King and lis
subject.
Christians began to observe Christ
mas about fifteen hundred years ago.
In course of time the young people
rather lost sight of the saeredness of
the dav and made it day of feasting
and frolic. They sang songs because
it was that the shepherds sang songs
at Bethle hem. They made presents to
one another because the wise men from
the East brought presents to the
young child and its mother.
The Roman Catholic church has
observed this celebration for centuries
and the church of England took them
and so did the Protestants of Germany
and other countries. la great print
ing of the Nativity, by Raphael, there
is seen a Shep pherd at the door playing
bagpipc The Tyrolese who live on
the mountain slopes of Italy come
down to the valleys on Christmas eve.
They come carollng sweet songs ana
playing on musical instruments.
There used to be many curious
snperstitions bout Christmas.
1t is believed that an OK and
an ass that were near when
the Saviour was born bent their knee
in devotion, and so the people believed
that all the domestic animals went to
prayer on Christmas night. They be-
lieved that when the rooster crowed
for midnight all the wizards and
watches ana bobgoblins and evil spirits
fled away from tho habitation of man
and hid in hollow trees and caves and
deserted houses for twelve days.
Mr.. Carlyle said that every nation
should have hero and should
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1887-12-22
Bill Nyc's Useful Suggestions.

| take the liberty once more of reply
ing 10 few queries through your val
liable columns, says Bill Nye, in the
New York Erennq World.
Literateur, Vino; skimmygillions
is not proper word to use at the table.
| do not know what it means, but it
will be better to use some other word
in the place of it. Many other words
are equally resonant and Opaque with
out giving olfense.
Veritas. Rub the gummy side of
postage stamps on your halr few
times and il will prevent their sticking
together IN your pocket or purse. There
is just oil enough in the hair to coat
over the adhesive properties of the
stamps and prevent their adhesion. Il
friend of mine who has hair tells me
that this is the case.
Simmons, PhiladeIphia.-Yes ii you
are the sternographer of prominent
man, and act rs lis private secretary,
you are perfectly correct in signing
your employers name, "per Simmons. "
1t is not only etiquette, butt is euphon-
ious.
Lalla Rookh, Tampa, Fla, writes to
know what he "should do TO become a
fluent writer ana correspondent ?"
To become fluent writer there is no
better method, perhaps, than to hold
the pen lightly between the thumb and
forefnger, allowing 1T to rest on the
first Joint of the middle or large finger
Let the arm rest easily on the lleshy
port ion of the forearm, with the pen
holder pointing about due west. Sit
erect, think few thoughts, then clothe
them in such language as you feel that
in your circumstances you can afford.
In clothing thought, do not put so
much expense upon one particular gar
ment that the idea will have to go be-
fore the public in its shirt sleeves. IN
other words, make your clothing bust
ness harmonious and consistent.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1887-12-22

worship bim-not as a God or in place
of the true God, but the next thing to
it. He says it cements the people to-
gether and makes them proud OF their
country and content with their gov
erment. This hero may be real CT
imaginary, but the people must be-
lieve that he ought for them or died
for them or was the founder Of their
institutions or their religion, The an
cient Norsemen had Odin and Thor
for their heroes. The Persiaus had
their genii and their fairies; the Hin
d oos their rakshar; the Greeks and
Romans their wonderful gods and
goddesses such as Jupiter and Luna
and Hercules and Vulcan and Neptune.
The mere enlightened a people be-
comes, the more sublime are their
superstitions. The unCiyilized In
dians are mystifed, and can only "see
God in clouds and hear him in the
winds" The native Africans have
GRO codiles and serpenls and owls for
their gods Some Of them ofa higher
grade set their faith in foxes and rab-
bits and jaybirds. Down South the
good negroes used to tell the white
children stories at night about the tar
baby and the bear and the bee tree,
and foxes and wolves, but the bad ne
grocs told us about witches and ghosts
and Jack o'latteons aud rawhead and
bloody bones, and We would listen
until We didu't dare to look round,
and we wouldn't havcgone from their
cabins 10 the "big house" alone for a
world full of gold.
Napoleon said that all men were
towards by night, but il was those
old negroes that made us so and our
generation has never recovered from
il. Christmas was great season for
negroes in slavery times. II was q
feast and lrolc for n whole week
and their children wertGust as good a
the white children then and all irolick-
ed together.
Bat at this joyous season there
should be nothing bat love and kind
ness end good will For twelve days,
If not more, let envy and late malice
and selfshness ali be banished 10 cav
es and the wilderness.
Then rich and merry Christmas to
the rich.
And a hri2ht and happy Christmas to
the poer.
So their hearts are joyous it doesn't
matter which
Has the fine velvet carpet on the floor.
For riches bring q trouble when they
come.
And money leaves pain when it
goes;
But everybody now should have lit
tie sum
To brig hten up the year at its close.
BILL ARP.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1887-12-22
The Old and the New.

One year more IL quickly numbered
With the ages of the past.
And we scarcely heed the moments
As they pass us by so fast.
'EIehtyseven, 30 Old but honored,
Shares his predecessors fate:
Yields his throne 10 youth and beauty.
Welcome 10 thee, 'RIghtyeightI
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1887-12-22
The Week Before Christmas.


'Tis the week before Christmas,
Aud al, In the house
Arc plotting and planning
As sly as a mouse.
Strange bundles are smuggled
inside unaware,
And hidden away with
The greatest Of care.
The children with secrets
They're burninL To tell,
And In an excitement
That nothing can Quell,
Are hourly asking
How many more days
Before it is Christmas,
With checks all ablaze.
The old folks, as eager,
The fever have caught,
And crowd in the places
Where presents are bought
To them Merry.Christmas
Is Sweeter we know,
Than when their own stockings
Were filled long ago.
Way up from the kitchen
Spiced odors arise
or genuine, homemade,
Delicious mince'pies,
just stuffed full of rAisins
AS big and as round
As little Jack Horner
SO happily found.
The long winter nights
All much longer appear,
For who can sleep Soundly
W it'll Christmas so near.
And now, for the stockings!
No tots tiny hose
Can hold half of the treasures
kriSS krlngle beStows;
So mammals great big ones
Are got with delight.
All ready 10 hang up
On Santa Claus night.
Now, Christmas is neari and
ST. Nick In his sleigh.
Behind his swift reindeerS,
Is flying this way.
He's now on the Snow-cloudS.
He'll be 1t your gate;
Prepare for his coming
There's no time To wait.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1887-12-22

WITNESS said lawyer, in the police
court the other day, you speak Of Mr.
being well OFF. Is he worth $4,000 p
NO, sab.
Two thousand -
No sab :hain't Wort S25.
Then how is he w"ll off?'
Got wife who sports de hull family
sah.'
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1887-12-22
The New Year.

Only garland OF wifhered leaves;
Only the wall OF the wind, that grieyes
Over the dying year.
Sadly we listen our hearts are full,
AS we stand on the years dim verge to Gull
All memories sweet and dear.
AS the sunsets flush I'm the western skies
Deepens IN spiendor as daylight dies,
So the glow OF the hOly.tlde
Touches with lingering tender grace
The fading smile on the old years face
The face IL has glorihed.
Under the garland OF withered leaves,
Lulled by the wall OF the wind that Rrieves,
Is ssleeping springs fairy train:
And gayly It's ladder OF stars there climbs
The musical pea OF the new years chimes,
Bringing hope 10 our hearts agaln.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1887-12-22
ADVERTISING RATES.
hH:'';s' :'tt;' ,i;i iiEi 4; IS IS &: 6 '!EE s. $

One Inch makes a square. Administrators
and Executors Notices 82.50. Transient adver-
tlsements and locals 10 cents per line for frat
insertion and cents per line for each addition
nj insertions
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1887-12-22
NRwsPAPER LAWS

IL subscribers order the discrimination ol
newspapers. the publishers may continue ID
send Them until all arrearages are paid.
W subscribers refuse or neglect To take thell
newspapers from the once 10 which they are seIll
they are held responsible until they havesettlod
the bills aud ordered them discontinued.
III subscribers move 10 other places with0utln
forming the publisher, and the newspapers are
sentt the former place, they are responsible.
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-12-21
Marshal JOlly'S Cat.

Marshal John Jolly is q connlsseur ~
fighting dogs, and until some ~
poisoned his bull dog recently, he was pre-
pared to make a match with oil corners,
and vim T. He couldn't find another dog
fit to take the place Of his late iavor'e' x Gn5
may colne along with a fighting dog ana ada q
fat purse. He has a Canadian lynx, si for
he will pit against any dog in M Gihit;on ct
$500 a side. The lynx is on e1hiol'.i ;th a. -
Turner Hall, and regards all c9m o - tnow
searching gaze as if he would IKE Tbe ~ Ivnx is
whether they NEAR business; a athor d;oiti.
easily distinguished from an oC 10 Lido
grade carniverous quadrupeo. " tho tin oi
species, by an erect tuit OF mar ~ oailus
each ear. They give aim a pecu'"'
and wide awake appearance
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-12-21
A WHOLE.SOULED MAN.

How Dr.. MussigbrOd Entertains His Pa
tients on Christmas-Presents of Gold
Watches and Suits of Clothes-The
Christmas Festivities at Warm Springs.
One of the biggest hearted men in the
West is DR.. Mussigbrod, OF the Warm
Springs Asylum. Year alter year he has
been unostentatiousiy dispensing his char
tiles with a liberal hand, and so quietly
that but few outside of the asylum have
had any idea OF his generosity. A lew days
ago DR.. Mussigbrod left an order at Gold
smith e. Co.'s for tw~enty-six suits OF
clothes, to be presented on Christmas to
some OF the convalescent patients. TO
others he will present gold and silver
watches and other presents, suited to the
condition in life of the recipients. On
Christmas all except the violent patients
will seat themselves at q table loaded with
all the d~elicacies OF the season, and in the
evening they will have a regular
OLD FASHIONED n DANCE.
The doctor expeuds about $1,000 every
Christmas on the presents andteasts Tor
his charges, and h enjoys to the full, the
pleasures OF being able to confer SO much
bappinsss on others. To a gentleman who
was speaking to him of his munificencs the
other day, the good doctor said: We'll
vhv should / not? l am an old man, hav:
ing passed my seventy-third birthday.
have more money than I can use on my
self, and why should I not do something
for the the un%fortunates placed IN my
charger" DR.. Mussiebrod has Just com.
pleted a large addition to his buildings AZ
Warm Springs, that cost him $2,5oo.
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-12-21
AN AWFUL DEATH.

Sam schlesinger Cut In Two by fre'en'
Train I'm Texss-He Lives But q re"
Minutes after the Accident.
Thu sad intelligence a received in this
city yesterday that Sam schles'nger' a son
Of +. ] Schlesinger, formerly a liquor dealer
on West Park street, was killed in Texas
last Saturday. Sam was a rather Maynard
youth, aged about II. Some time ago MS
father put him on a training snip az Al.
napolis, in the hope that the d'sc'p,'ne 10
would be subjected to there would have q
.olutorv effect. Sam soon tired OF lie on
board the ship and made his escape, DRIFT.
ing into Texas. He was riding on a ire'en1
train and fell between the cars, several cars
passing over him, s~evering bis thighs ciose
to the body. Sam schlssinger was a br,gnt
boy. and the news OF I his a WI b dss %aco~ ~i,S.
ances in Rntte. His father, now IN Helena
has the sympathy Of this community